Chapter 194 Mission Completed, Upcoming Merge
They saw that Cao Xing was holding a scarlet tongue in his hand.

Militiaman Arno's pupils suddenly shrank, and then he exclaimed:
"Oh my god! That's the tongue of the snow demon!"

"Lord Cao Xing actually killed this evil creature!"

Including other militiamen, everyone had expressions of shock and disbelief on their faces.

After all, their original idea was just to invite Cao Xing to come over and use powerful means to drive away the snow demon.

According to the habits of the snow demon, if it suffers a loss in one place, it will not come back for a second time in a short period of time.

Although this method cannot solve the problem once and for all, it can bring some peace for a period of time.

But no one thought that Cao Xing actually killed the Snow Demon directly!
Arno asked tentatively, "Master Cao Xing... did you really kill those snow demons?"

"Yes."

After getting confirmation, Arno's face showed ecstasy.

"Master Cao Xing, you really surprised me!"

"I have never heard of anyone who can kill a snow demon in my life!"

Other militiamen also echoed.

"That's right, Lord Cao Xing's power is incredible!"

"The snow demon has been killed. We won't be disturbed by these monsters for a long time!"

Militiaman Arno said excitedly: "Great! I will tell this news to all the villagers in Hog ​​Village!"

After saying this, he trotted towards the village.

"Everyone in Hog ​​Village, Lord Cao Xing has killed those snow demons. We don't have to worry about the threat of snow demons anymore!"

Hearing his voice, all the villagers felt like they had received a shot of stimulant and were extremely excited in the middle of the night.

Even Elena, who was hiding in the basement, heard Arno's voice and a look of joy appeared on her face.

She knew that Cao Xing had succeeded.

After hearing the news, the village chief Maldo quickly walked out of the room and quickly came to Cao Xing.

He said solemnly: "Lord Cao Xing, I have heard that you actually killed those powerful snow demons!"

"This way, we won't have to worry about the invasion of the Snow Demon in the next few years!"

"On behalf of all the villagers of Hog Village, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you!"

After saying this, Maldo bowed solemnly.

Cao Xing smiled and said, "Village Chief Maldo is too polite. This is what I should do."

The village chief, Maldo, quickly asked the militiaman next to him to bring over a cloth bag, which was heavy with more than 80,000 kronor.

"Master Cao Xing, this is the reward I promised you."

Cao Xing did not hesitate to take the 80,000 kronor.

The next moment, a system prompt appears.

[Successfully completed the mission: Expel the Snow Demon]

[Obtained mission reward: Coins*87422, Hogg Village's favorability has been improved. 】

Current Relationship: Intimate

[Intimacy: Every other week, you can go to Hog Village to recruit a group of new people for free. ]

...

When Cao Xing saw the system prompt, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"Huh? After the relationship with Hog Village has been upgraded to intimate, there is still this function?"

"This feeling is so good!"

"In this way, in addition to the tavern's recruitment function, I will have an additional fixed source of population."

Thinking of this, Cao Xing smiled happily.

At this time, the village chief of Maldo continued: "Lord Cao Xing, it is late at night now, and your men should be tired from the battle tonight."

"How about staying in Hog ​​Village tonight and leaving early tomorrow morning?"

"Sure." Cao Xing replied.

I smiled at Maldo's wrinkled face, "Okay, Lord Cao Xing, if you have any requests or other questions, you can always come to me, I will do my best to complete them!"

Hearing this, Cao Xing suddenly said, "Village Chief Maldo, I do need your help with something."

Maldo said respectfully: "Please speak, Master Cao Xing."

Cao Xing got straight to the point: "It's about Elena. My territory is currently short of manpower, so I want to bring her back to the territory. I hope the village chief can agree."

Hearing this, Village Chief Maldo looked thoughtful, and then said, "To be honest, Lord Cao Xing, you can take Elena away..."

"However, her grain store is actually opened in the village..."

"Most of her food is the grain tax paid by the villagers every year. She sells it in the store, and the kronor she earns will be used by me to build the village."

"Her husband died deep in the mountains. We thought she was lonely and helpless, so we let her work in the grain store."

"so…"

Cao Xing nodded suddenly after hearing this, and then said, "I understand, Village Chief Maldo."

"We won't take the food from the grain store. I just need to take Elena with me."

Although Elena's grain store was a considerable fortune, Cao Xing didn't take her away just for the food.

After hearing this, Maldo nodded quickly and said, "That's great, Lord Cao Xing. You can take Elena away tomorrow morning."

Cao Xing shook his head and said, "Nothing, but I'll have to trouble you to find a new grain store owner."

Maldo waved his hands repeatedly, indicating that it was not troublesome.

Then, Cao Xing asked Assam and others to go back and rest.

He took Liu Muxue back to the room arranged by the village chief to rest.

However, the two did not go to bed to sleep. Instead, they leaned against the fireplace and fell asleep in each other's arms.

The next day...

A system prompt appears.

[Survivors, please note that you have passed the sixth day of the official period. After tomorrow, we will usher in the first merge of the servers. Please be prepared. ]

[The Dragon Resurrection expansion pack will be updated for the second time, more items will be added to the Dragon Store, and a new leaderboard challenge will be launched soon. Look forward to it...]

[Today's weather: light wind, there will be a cold current at night, please be prepared to keep warm. ]

...

After hearing the system prompt, Cao Xing and Liu Muxue woke up together.

Liu Muxue blinked her beautiful eyes and said softly, "It's time to update again, Ah Xing!"

Cao Xing nodded and said, "Yes, and there are new leaderboard challenges."

After hearing this, Liu Muxue's face also showed excitement. The reward for the last ranking was quite good, summoning the leader-level creature Xierda.

This gave them a taste of the sweetness.

Liu Muxue clenched her fist and said excitedly: "We must win first place this time too! Hehehe!"

Cao Xing smiled and said, "I guess it's not that easy."

"This ranking is quite difficult. After all, it is a merger of 10 regions, with at least hundreds of thousands of people."

Hearing this, Liu Muxue suddenly said: "That's true..."

"But I believe that Ah Xing is the best!"

"I will also work hard with Ah Xing!"

Cao Xing also laughed, "Okay, let's work hard together."

Rubbing her head, Cao Xing said, "Let's go, let's prepare to return to the territory."

...

...

Cao Xing and Liu Muxue walked out of the house and came to the entrance of Hoge Village.

Soon, everyone else gathered at the village entrance again, including Elena who had packed her things.

She had received a notice from the village chief, Maldo, last night, telling her that she could leave with Cao Xing once she understood.

This made Elena feel both embarrassed and expectant.

Liu Muxue, who was standing next to her, looked at the shy Elena and seemed to understand something.

A smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and then she came to Elena.

Elena was a little uncomfortable at first. She looked at Liu Muxue with awe and behaved very cautiously.

However, with Liu Muxue's enthusiasm.

After a while, the two girls started chatting happily and even laughed.

Cao Xing looked at them strangely.

Just as he was about to issue a recruitment invitation to Elena, he seemed to remember something.

"By the way, my relationship with Hogg Village has reached a close level, and I can use the recruitment function once a week."

"It's a good opportunity to try and bring some people back this time."

So he directly clicked [Recruit].

[Recruitment successful, the head of Hogg Village is arranging personnel...]

...

Cao Xing was stunned. "Is it so convenient?"

But he didn't think much about it, after all, the system's functions were very powerful.

It can be said that it is the golden finger that all survivors of Blue Star have.

He waited silently.

Not long after, several villagers came running over carrying large and small bags.

One of the middle-aged men, who was about 30 years old, said, "Master Cao Xing, the village chief said that your territory needs manpower, so he asked us to come and assist you."

"From now on you will be our lord!"

The other villagers spoke with smiles on their faces.

"I never thought that we would be favored by Lord Cao Xing. We will work hard for you in the future!"

Cao Xing also smiled.

"Welcome, let us build a rich and vibrant territory together!"

After that, he issued a recruitment invitation to these villagers and Elena.

[Recruitment successful: Elena/Reuben/Gasna/Uleli... join your territory, territory population +8]

Cao Xing took a glance.

These people include both men and women, and most of them are between 20 and 40 years old.

The chief of Hoge Village was quite kind and did not send some old, weak and sick people to him.

However, these are just ordinary villagers, and they don't have any special skills.

They can be arranged to go to Cao Yishou to collect resources, or go to farm with Dahua.

However, the loyalty of these villagers is quite high, and their loyalty is over 70 when they are first recruited.

What surprised Cao Xing was that Elena, who had just joined, had a loyalty level as high as 90.

Looking at the charming woman, a gentle smile appeared on Cao Xing's lips.

Hello young lady...

Obedient and sensible...

Then he took out the sled and continued to hang on Dabai.

Cao Xing looked at the villagers and said, "Everyone, sit on it."

The villagers looked at the sled on the ground with curiosity, and then sat on it carefully.

As for Elena, she was invited by Liu Muxue with a shy look on her face and sat behind the mammoth.

Boom!dong dong!

The mammoth took a step forward, followed by a snow-white violent bear, Volibear.

The group rushed to the territory unharmed.

Ten minutes later.

They have already seen Cao Xing's territory.

Compared with the previous few days, the territory has undergone significant changes.

With the unremitting efforts of Duan and others.

All [Primary City Walls] have been upgraded to [Intermediate City Walls].

The intermediate city wall is 4 meters high and 60 centimeters wide, and looks very heavy!

Within this width, some defensive facilities such as large crossbows can be placed.

Besides.

They also saw a total of 23 intermediate elemental arrow towers, 7 sentry towers, and 12 ice arrow towers.

This makes Cao Xing's territory look full of deterrence.

The villagers were looking at the scene in amazement, exclaiming from time to time.

"Gods be above, Lord Cao Xing's territory is too powerful!"

"So many arrow towers and so many powerful soldiers, my God!"

"Compared with Lord Cao Xing's territory, the defense level of our Hog Village is simply useless!"

"Living in a territory like this, there is no need to worry about the snow demons coming over at night. They will be shot away by these arrow towers before they get close. Haha!"

The villagers of Hog Village had happy smiles on their faces.

Like old Mel, in this world, the first need of ordinary people like these is to ensure their own safety.

Obviously, Cao Xing's territory can meet this need.

[Because your territory's prosperity has reached the requirement, the new member feels safe. Territory member: Reuben, loyalty has been improved, current loyalty: 75]

[Because your territory's prosperity has reached the requirement, the new member feels safe. Territory member: Elena, loyalty has been improved, current loyalty: 93]

【Because of you……】

A smile appeared on Cao Xing's lips.

The gates of the territory were wide open.

Seeing Cao Xing and others return safely, the people were all delighted with smiles on their faces.

They all smiled and greeted, "Welcome back, Lord."

"Good morning, Lord!"

"Madam Lord, you look beautiful again today..."

Cao Xing and Liu Muxue also nodded in response.

Amidst the greetings, they arrived at the center of the territory.

Cao Xing first asked all the fighters to go back and rest.

Then he called over the leader Cao Yi.

Cao Yi said respectfully: "My Lord, please give me your orders."

Cao Xing nodded. "These newcomers have just arrived in our territory. You should first help them get familiar with the environment, and then arrange their work for today."

Hearing this, the chief of the village, Cao Yi, glanced at the villagers of Hoge Village.

They all lowered their heads in embarrassment.

"Okay, my lord, I'll take them there right away."

Then, Cao Yi led seven new members away.

And Cao Xing looked at the charming woman next to him.

"Elena, come with me."

She nodded her head, "Okay... Sir..."

Then he followed Cao Xing silently.

The two of them went straight to the sewing shop and pushed open the door.

Like before, Xia Yanni is still busy.

She was sewing a batch of light animal hide armor and looked like she had been working on it for a long time.

At this moment, Xia Yanni saw Elena beside Cao Xing at a glance.

There was a look of curiosity and doubt in her beautiful eyes.

Cao Xing said: "Yanni, Elena is our new member."

"I also know that you have to take on the sewing work of the entire territory by yourself, which is a bit stressful."

"Elena will work with you from now on. You take care of her."

After hearing this, Xia Yanni smiled gently, "Okay, sir, thank you."

She stood up, then took long steps and came to Elena's side.

"Ms. Elena, please take care of me in the future."

Elena quickly replied: "No... No... I just want you to take care of me..."

"I...I will assist you...Just let me know if you need anything..."

Both of them seemed very polite.

They introduced themselves to each other and found out each other's age and name.

Elena is one year older than Xia Yanni.

Two mature women standing together have a unique flavor.

However, Xia Yanni is almost 1.8 meters tall, but she is a head taller than Elena.

Elena looked at Xia Yanni and exclaimed, "Oh, sister, you are so tall..."

Xia Yanni said a little embarrassedly: "Yes, sometimes I also feel that I am too high, and I feel a little inferior in my heart..."

Elena quickly shook her head and said, "How could that be? Your figure is exactly what I dreamed of. It's so perfect."

"This is a figure that is enough to drive those nobles and knights crazy!"

"No...nothing..."

Perhaps because their experiences were similar, the two women got along very well.

After a while, they started chatting happily.

Seeing this, Cao Xing smiled and left the sewing shop.

...

Then, Cao Xing found Juliet again.

With Neve, the three of them came to the back garden area of ​​the lord's mansion.

He took out a [Heart of the Snow Demon Leader (Gold)] and two [Hearts of the Snow Demon Chieftain (Purple)].

Then he said, "Juliette, give these to the Pale Tree."

Juliette nodded slightly, "Okay, your Excellency."

"I didn't expect you to find a new heart so quickly. If you keep going like this, it won't be long before the Pale Tree grows into a big tree."

Juliet didn't care at all about the appearance of the snow demon's heart.

As a knowledgeable botanist, in her eyes, the Snow Demon Heart is just a prop like the Man-Faced Tree Heart that can accelerate the growth of the Pale Tree.

Cao Xing smiled and said, "I am also looking forward to the day when the Pale Tree grows up completely."

Then, he watched as Juliette poured the life force contained in the heart of the first leader into it.

At this moment, the crown of the Pale Tree began to sway gently.

There was the sound of leaves rustling.

Wow…

Then, the Pale Tree began to grow rapidly.

From the original 5 meters in height, it quickly grew to 6 meters, 7 meters...

It didn't stop until it was about 10 meters.

A system prompt appears.

[Your territory plant: Pale Tree has gained accelerated growth, this acceleration time is: 7 years]

[Life blessing effect increased by 7%, growth blessing effect increased by 7%]

...

Seeing the system prompt, Cao Xing's face was filled with joy.

“It has grown by 7 years in a flash!”

"Very good, now the healing power of Ice Healing and Lifebloom can be greatly increased!"

A moment later, Juliette poured the vitality contained in two other boss-level hearts into the Pale Tree.

Rumble…

The Pale Tree continues to grow.

The trunk grows taller, the branches continue to extend out, and the dense crown looks like a big white umbrella.

[Your territory plant: Pale Tree has gained accelerated growth, this acceleration time is: 4 years]

[Life blessing effect increased by 4%, growth blessing effect increased by 4%]

...

"Not bad, not bad. Two boss-level hearts have added another 4 years!"

"In this way, the total life bonus is 32%. Too strong!"

At this time, the pale tree also ushered in greater changes.

The height is over 14 meters, the trunk diameter is over 1 meter, and the crown is covered with a large number of branches and dense white leaves.

A breeze blew, causing a rustling sound.

The treetops swayed gently, and a few pure white leaves fell from time to time.

It looks full of sacredness.

At this time, Cao Xing also realized how powerful this legendary sacred tree was.

The epic quality of the Pale Tree alone can increase health bonus by up to 100%.

According to Juliet, the quality of the complete Pale Tree is even better than the legend.

If one day, I could really revive the legendary pale sacred tree in my own territory.

The improvement brought by this tree alone is unimaginable!

Juliette and Neve also had relieved smiles on their faces.

"That's great, sister. It feels like this pale tree is almost as tall as the one in front of our tree house." Neve said excitedly.

Juliette nodded slightly. "Yes, it's hard to imagine that it was just a small sapling a few days ago..."

"One day in the future, perhaps we will really see the pale tree reappear."

At this time, Juliette seemed to remember something and said softly, "By the way, Lord, I have something to report to you."

Cao Xing was puzzled after hearing this: "What's the matter?"

"It's about the few ancient war tree seeds you gave me a few days ago."

"After being watered with the cold spirit water for the past few days and the accelerated growth effect of the pale tree, they have successfully broken through the ground. Do you want to check them out?"

Juliette blinked her jewel-like eyes and looked at Cao Xing.

After hearing this, Cao Xing was delighted.

"It grew out so quickly?"

"Very good, then let's go and take a look."

……

(End of this chapter)